Okay, so now that I have a chance to blog about what I thought of the conference overall, I figured that I would do it and get it out of the way before I forget and/or run out of time during the week to do it.
I attended a session today on PHPUnit, the PHP framework for testing your code. I felt as though this was a significant software solution that must be talked about, considering I’d never heard of it before.
Well, I’ve been at the Zend/PHP conference in San Jose, CA since Sunday. The tutorials began on Monday, and with the beginning, I recognized a HUGE diversity gap. There were plenty of Americans, Canadians and Britans who were speaking English, but as I sit here typing this there are 3 individuals speaking French (could be Canadian and not French individuals, don’t know specifically). Additionally, there is a lot of Hebrew floating around. I had forgotten on the first day that the Zend company is headquartered in Israel, so this would explain the Hebrew. It’s different - OSCON was nothing like this.
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Okay, so when I got into Work this past Friday, I was greeted by an email in my inbox asking about my sending of email over the weekend. Here’s a nice little box that the administrator sent me:
This past week I went to Piscataway, NJ to visit IEEE headquarters and converse with my peers from all over the United States. The event: IEEE University Partnership Program Summit. The goal: Allowing us to express concerns and needs from IEEE, network with peers, and learn much more about IEEE than we knew in the past.
As far as I was aware, forms were simply supposed to be wrappers to allow the browser to determine which elements inside are supposed to be used with particular forms. Well, according to some browsers, now they have properties to modify the way a page look by default.
For those people who weren’t aware (because I didn’t put this on my calendar) I was in Piscataway, NJ this past weekend on “business” with the IEEE. The purpose: University Partnership Program Chair Summit. By now you’re wondering WTF is that. Lemme start with the basics of IEEE, then I’ll explain the UPP.
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